The New York Knicks’ rookie guard has been doing plenty of that as of late, averaging 17.7 points his last six games. He has shot 50 percent from the field over that stretch and also 50 percent from three-point range. Even better, only 3.4 of Trier’s 10.6 field goal attempts per game have come from long range. It’s not as though he’s doing his best J.R. Smith impression and just throwing up three after three.
But simple scoring does not a winner make. Just ask Carmelo Anthony and Amar’e Stoudemire.